LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Sports cuts a sign of malaise

The cutting of sports programs at Temple University and nationwide at all levels is one of many symptoms of the malaise that is affecting the country due to the financialization and de-industrialization of the economy by our political elites.

We used to talk about the "war on poverty"; now we talk about the fading middle class. There used to be millions of well-paying jobs in the country for those without the skills, ability or desire to attend college, but "they're not coming back," according to the also-ran of the 2008 presidential election.

This is where our once-shared prosperity has brought us. To prosper, every citizen must use higher education to saddle themselves with debt, with fading hopes that there will be something other than a minimum-wage job (which is another bone of contention for our political elites) for them.

Meanwhile, the fading middle class will need to pray for more philanthropy from above to try to preserve a semblance of the way things were.

With the prospects of the new trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, being negotiated behind closed doors, and the further possible damage it will do to the once-shared prosperity of our great country, I wonder if our political elites recognize the real possibility of the civil unrest you now see in Ukraine?

ROY LEHMAN

Woolwich

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Sports cuts a sign of malaise

The cutting of sports programs at Temple University and nationwide at all levels is one of many symptoms of the malaise that is affecting the country due to the financialization and de-